Defensor pacis

Description

I think this book needs to be read by Filipino priests. The church in the Philippines has become advocates of the policies of the medieval church and up to the present time, is perceived to be interfering with the affairs of the state with repercussions in the international community.

Description

"Marsilius of Padua is one of the few truly revolutionary figures in the history of political philosophy. The first to propound the separation of Church and State, he is considered the precursor to subsequent political thinkers, from Machiavelli to Marx.". "The Marsilian revolution consisted not only in a radical change in the theory of the relations between religion and politics that culminated in the Protestant Reformation and other central developments of the modern era, but, even more importantly, it had an effect on the whole conception of human beings - their nature, acts, values, and sociopolitical relations.". "As Cary J. Nederman writes in the foreword to the new edition, "Marsilius continues to speak to many of the salient issues of modern political life, expressing his doctrines in a language that has resonance and relevance. Whether in addressing the role of citizenship as a buffer between individual and community, or in explicating the foundations of religious toleration, the Defensor pacis (and Marsilius' other writings) affords a distinctive theoretical perspective that rivals that of any of the great thinkers of the Western political tradition.""--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Genres

• Early works to 1800

Series Statement

• Records of Western civilization

Other Editions

• Defensor pacisColumbia University Press2001-01-01
• Opvs insigne cvi titvlvm fecit avtor Defensorem pacis, quod questionem illam iam olim controversam1522-01-01
• Defensor pacisHahn1932-01-01
• Defensor pacis.Hahnsche Buchhandlung1932-01-01
• Defensor pacisRütten & Loening1958-01-01
• Defensor pacis.Fondazione Luigi Einaudi1966-01-01